Net-zero Transportation and Electric Vehicles
News
Upcoming Events:
April/May 2025 - 2025 Project Annual Meeting
Publications:
Javanmard, M. E., Tang, Y., Wang, Z., & Tontiwachwuthikul, P. (2023). Forecast energy demand, CO2 emissions and energy resource impacts for the transportation sector. Applied Energy, 338, 120830.
Yousuf, A. K. M., Wang, Z., Paranjape, R., & Tang, Y. (2023, September). Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Review of Technologies, Challenges, and Mitigation Strategies. In 2023 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) (pp. 588-592). IEEE.
Javanmard, M. E., Tang, Y., & Martínez-Hernández, J. A. (2024). Forecasting air transportation demand and its impacts on energy consumption and emission. Applied Energy, 364, 123031.
Gharebaghi, M., Rezaei, O., Li, C., Wang, Z., & Tang, Y. (2024). A Survey on Using Second-Life Batteries in Stationary Energy Storage Applications. Energies, 18(1), 42.
Yousuf, A. K. M., Wang, Z., Paranjape, R., & Tang, Y. (2024). An in-depth exploration of electric vehicle charging station infrastructure: a comprehensive review of challenges, mitigation approaches, and optimization strategies. IEEE Access.
Shikder, M. F. H., Tang, Y., Almehdawe, E., & Araújo, J. C. (2024). Risk incident analyses in the transportation of anhydrous ammonia as an emerging clean energy resource. Risk Analysis.
Almehdawe, E., Soufiani, E. and Tang, Y. (2024). Investigation of EV Charging Sessions: Analyzing Patterns Over Time and Across Locations. 1st International Conference on Industrial, Manufacturing, and Process Engineering. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Javanmard, M. E., Tang, Y.*, Wang, Z., Paranjape, R. (2024). Charge-Travel Behaviour High-Dimensional Clustering for Elctric and Hybrid Vehicles in Warm and Cold Months by Data-Driven Approach. 2024 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Niagara, Canada.
Martínez-Hernández, J. A., Tang, Y., Almehdawe, E. (2024). Electric Vehicle User’s Decision on When to charge – From a Canadian Revealed Preferences Study. 2024 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Niagara, Canada.
Invited Talks:
Zhanle Wang, 2024, EV charging analysis, Management, and Impact on Power Distribution Systems. REPE 2024
Yili Tang, 2023, Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure Research Program: Urban and Long-distance Trips. Spring Session Event of Canadian Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) Saskatchewan Section, Regina, Canada
Presentations:
Tang, Y. (2023). Towards clean energy: road safety with dangerous goods of hydrogen products. ITE Canada/CARSP 2023 Joint Conference.
Neigum, K., Wang, Z., and Tang, Y. (2023) Optimize Performance of Second Life Batteries in an Electric Vehicle Charging Network. Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference. London, Canada. June 2-5, 2024.
Almehdawe, E., Soufiani, E. and Tang, Y. (2023) Formulating a queuing model for the Electric Vehicles Charging patterns based on real data analysis. Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference. London, Canada. June 2-5, 2024.
Tang, Y. (2023) Spatial-temporal passenger commuting patterns with mixture of electric and diesel buses. Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference. London, Canada. June 2-5, 2024.
Media Release, Workshop and Seminars:
December, 2024 - 2nd Project Progress Interim Report.
June 2024 - 2024 Project Annual Workshop hosted in London, Ontario
November 23 , 2023 - 1st Project Progress Intrim report.
August 9, 2023 - If you build it, will they run? – Discourse Research Magazine|University of Regina. Learn more
June 12, 2023 - Partner Kick-off meeting with SaksPower, City of Regina and Acuere Consulting.
May 25, 2023 - Decarbonizing Transportation Symposium: Transit, Active Transportation, and Electrification. 1:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Univieristy of Regina - Education Auditorium: EA 106. Learn more
May 16, 2023 - Decarbonizing Transportation Seminar - Electric Vehicles: Challenges, Strategies and Emission Mitigations. 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Education Auditorium Wing: ED 106.1. Learn more
Research
Project Title: Electric vehicle infrastructure design, optimization, and emission evaluations toward a full-scale net-zero transportation sector
The project will address the growing challenges, strategies and future vision of electric vehicles. It will also assess the development approaches toward zero-emission transportation and society.
The research project is funded by NSERC Alliance Mission Grant.
Research Motivation
Transportation accounts for around 25% of Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Less than 6% of electric chargers are in the prairie region which makes EVs problematic for long trips.
Charging queuing and cold weather are major concerns for urban EV travels.
Canada’s mandate for net-zero by 2035 yet EVs still make up fewer than 5% of Canadian passenger vehicles.
Team
Principal Investigator
Yili (Kelly) Tang, Ph.D., P.Eng,
Co-Principal Investigator
Zhanle Wang, Ph.D., P.Eng,
Co-Principal Investigator
Eman Almehdawe, Ph.D., P.Eng
Co-Principal Investigator
Raman Paranjape, Ph.D., P.Eng
Co-Principal Investigator
Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul, Ph.D., P.Eng
Research Assistant
Duha Abdullah
PhD student
Majid Emami Javanmard
PhD student
Jesus Adrián Martínez
PhD student
Ramin Torkan
Postdoc
Ellie Soufiani
MASc
Kaila Neigum
James Fick, P.Eng, SaskPower
Shea Pederson, SaskPower
Darcy Kozoriz, SaskPower
Vikas Ravada, P.Eng, City of Regina
Nathan Fu, City of Regina
Clark Lim, Acuere Consulting Inc.